USA House to vote on cutting back renewable energy, promoting fossil fuels
US House To Vote On Cuts To Renewable-Energy Research, NASDAQ By Ryan Tracy, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES, 12 July 11, WASHINGTON – The U.S. House Monday was expected to vote on cuts to renewable-energy research while boosting funding for energy technologies that use fossil fuel, the latest evidence of a partisan divide on energy policy…..http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=201107111613dowjonesdjonline000291&title=us-house-to-vote-on-cuts-to-renewable-energy-research
Nuclear Regulatory Commission to decide on USA nuclear waste repository
Fate of Yucca Mountain Decision in NRC Hands, By SONYA ANGELICA DIEHN, 11 July 11 , (CN) – The D.C. Circuit ruled that a decision on the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada lies firmly with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission…..Although the DOE withdrew its application and has halted construction at the site, it’s really up to the NRC to decide its fate, the appeals circuit wrote in three separate concurring opinions.
Judge Kavanaugh said this case is a “mess” due to overlapping responsibilities between the two agencies. While both are under the executive branch, the NRC can act more independently.
But for now, he wrote, “the ball in this case rests in the executive branch not with the President, but rather with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.”
Since the commission hasn’t made a final decision on Yucca Mountain yet, the case was determined untimely and dismissed. …..http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/07/11/38033.htm
Hospital fined for losing radioactive material
Federal nuclear regulators fine Bozeman hospital after losing radioactive material
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USA’s radioactive rainwater from Fukushima nuclear disaster
High levels of radiation detected in Northwest rainwater, by GARY CHITTIM / KING 5 News, July 11, 2011, SEATTLE — A Seattle nuclear watchdog group is accusing the federal government of failing to keep the public informed of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
In the days following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the U.S. began monitoring radiation from Japan’s leaking nuclear power plants.
Most of the public attention went to the air monitoring which showed little or no radiation coming our way. But things were different on the rain water side.
“The level that was detected on March 24 was 41 times the drinking water standard,” said Gerry Pollet from Heart of America Northwest. He reviewed Iodine 131 numbers released by the Environmental Protection Agency last spring.
“Our government said no health levels, no health levels were exceeded.When in fact the rain water in the Northwest is reaching levels 130 times the drinking water standards,” said Pollet.Elevated rain water samples were collected in Portland, Olympia and Boise — which had the highest….http://www.king5.com/news/environment/High-levels-of-radiation-detected-in-Northwest-rainwater–125391598.html
USA’s new nuclear regulations will take years to be developed
Analysis: After Fukushima, glacial change seen for U.S. nuclear, (Reuters) 11 July 11, – The U.S. nuclear industry this week gets its first peek at a roadmap for new regulations that ultimately could cost it billions in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi disaster.
But the bottom-line impact of Fukushima on the U.S. fleet of 104 reactors could take most of the next decade to calculate.
Most expect Tuesday’s report from a task force of senior staff members at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to be just the first step in years of deliberations and rule-makings…….
The last time the NRC did this kind of regulatory soul-search — after the September 11, 2001, attacks — it took a decade to get the entire plan in place. Continue reading
Nuclear Regulatory Commission keeps the public in the dark about radioactive leaks
NRC, nuke industry criticized for skirting public . The Sacramento Bee, 10 July 11, MONTPELIER, Vt. — When a nuclear watchdog group asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a study on leaks of radioactive water at the Vermont Yankee plant, it was told the NRC had seen the report but had never officially taken custody of it – so it wasn’t public. By DAVE GRAM, Associated Press
Critics say it’s a style of communication between regulator and regulated that cuts out the public and even state regulators – trying to track leaks of tritium, a radioactive form of water linked with cancer when ingested in high amounts.
An NRC spokeswoman confirmed the agency routinely sees industry reports that it does not share on its public web site. Raymond Shadis of the New England Coalition said the result is an agency making regulatory decisions based on information the public doesn’t get to see…..
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/10/3759812/nrc-nuke-industry-criticized-for.html
Long Branch Center refutes any need for USA nuclear reprocessing
Local environmental group submits comment on nuclear-fuel reprocessing facilities, Mountain Xpress, by Margaret Williams 10 July 11Secretary
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, DC 20555-0001
Attn: Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff
fax 301-415-1101
Rulemaking.Comments@nrc.gov
Re: Comment on Docket ID NRC–2010–0267, NRC “Draft Regulatory Basis for a Potential Rulemaking on Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Facilities” Continue reading
Entergy not to be charged over its lies about nuclear radioactive wastes
Vermont won’t charge Entergy over leak -Atty Gen
* State wants Vermont Yankee reactor to shut in 2012 * Entergy wants plant to run until 2032 By Scott DiSavino NEW YORK, July 6 (Reuters) - Vermont's attorney general decided not to charge Entergy Corp (ETR.N) or any of its current or past employees with perjury for misleading state officials during an investigation into a radioactive tritium leak at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in 2010. That leak, and misleading comments by Entergy employees that there were no underground pipes at the plant leaking tritium, helped convince state officials the reactor should be shut in March 2012, even though U.S. regulators renewed its original 40-year operating license for another 20 years. Unless state officials change their minds or New Orleans-based Entergy, the No. 2 U.S. nuclear power operator, wins a court case to block the state from shutting the reactor, Vermont Yankee will close in March 2012....... http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/06/utilities-entergy-vermont-idUSN1E76518U20110706
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Wildfires in Nevada nuclear bomb test areas
Lightning sparked blazes at nuclear test areas, BY TREVON MILLIARD, LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, Jul. 9, 2011, Wildland firefighters battled more than just the usual Nevada brush blaze this week. They had to contend with the possibility of radiation.
Lightning sparked two fires Tuesday within the Nevada National Security Site, the former nuclear test site 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. By Friday, the fires had consumed more than 6,000 acres, with the smaller blaze fully contained and the larger only 25 percent contained.
Crews have not only been watching winds and weather, but are monitoring radiation levels in the air, making certain the flames don’t stir up remnants of decades-old detonations. One of the fires is “several miles” from the location of an above-ground test, a safe distance according to Dante Pistone, a spokesman at the test site’s operations center…….
From 1951 until 1992, there were 928 nuclear tests involving 1,021 detonations at the test site. Of these, 100 were above ground and could be affected by disturbances such as wildfires…….http://www.lvrj.com/news/lightning-sparked-blazes-at-nuclear-test-areas-125260084.html?ref=084—
$1 Billion emergency response plan for USA nuclear industry ?
Representative Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, has faulted U.S. oversight of reactor safety. Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, both California Democrats, have called on the NRC to examine nuclear power plants located in areas of seismic activity. In June, rising waters of the Missouri River in Nebraska threatened to breach flood walls protecting two nuclear plants.
Nuke industry weighing $1B emergency response plan, Fuel Fix, By Brian Wingfield, 8 July 11 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. nuclear-power industry is considering a $1 billion plan that would create regional centers to store equipment for delivery to reactors within 24 hours of an emergency. Continue reading
Perry Nuclear Plant may not be operating safely
Perry Nuclear Plant facing possible safety violations, The investigation into an April incident at Perry Nuclear Power Plant in North Perry Village has the plant facing a possible safety violation., News Herald, July 09, 2011,
Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokeswoman Viktoria Mitlyng said preliminary findings indicate numerous missteps were taken on April 21 when workers removed a neuron monitor from a reactor………Mitlyng said the potential violation follows a series of indications that the plant may not be operating as safely as possible.
“Perry has had issues with human performance which for 31⁄2 years they have not been able to resolve.”…http://news-herald.com/articles/2011/07/09/news/nh4230128.txt?viewmode=2
Uranium mining gets an unlikely enemy, American hunters!
Elk, not uranium, Salt Lake Tribune, John Pollard Co-chair, Utah Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, 7 July Sportsmen from Utah and across the American West know about the prized elk hunting near the Grand Canyon. Field and Stream magazine named its “monster elk” among the nation’s top hunts on public lands.
These elk, and our hunting and fishing heritage, survive thanks to volunteer labor, an uncontaminated water supply and public access. Now we can add to that list Ken Salazar. The secretary of the Interior has signaled his intention to halt new uranium mining on these public lands near the Grand Canyon for another 20 years.
Let’s hope that is the case. Uranium can be found elsewhere; the “monster elk” cannot, http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/52146664-82/elk-public-uranium-canyon.html.csp
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USA taxpayers to pay Xcel for temporary nuclear waste storage
A proposed permanent storage site for U.S. nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada was dropped from consideration last year by the Obama administration. The blue ribbon commission has been studying what to do next……..
U.S. to pay Xcel $100M for nuclear waste storage: DAN BROWNING and NEAL ST. ANTHONY , Star Tribune , July 8, 2011 In the latest in a series of settlements with the nation’s electric utilities, the government agreed to bear the cost of storing waste……Xcel announced Friday that the government will pay $100 million to settle a lawsuit it filed in 1998. The payment is reimbursement for 10 years of storage costs incurred by the utility and its customers,…… Continue reading
Honolulu’s new law to help consumers get renewable energy
New law focuses on energy financing, Legislation provides for a study on renewable energy for consumers, Honolulu Star Advertiser, By Derrick DePledge , Jul 09, 2011
Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed into law Friday a bill directing the state Public Utilities Commission to study a program to encourage more consumers to move to renewable energy.
The so-called on-bill financing, if deemed viable and implemented by the PUC, would allow consumers to finance renewable energy systems over time through their electricity bills…..http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/hawaiinews/20110709_New_law_focuses_on_energy_financing.html
Uranium mining in Virginia opposed by Halifax Council
Halifax Council to step up opposition to uranium mining The Gazette Virginian 8 July 11, Halifax Town Council is set to take a firm stand opposing uranium mining in nearby Pittsylvania County.
At its monthly work session Wednesday night at Halifax Town Hall, council discussed possible strategies to get out the word on the hazards uranium mining presents to the county’s water sources.
Council had requested the county to include the Virginia Beach study, “A Preliminary Assessment of Potential Impacts of Uranium Mining in Virginia on Drinking Water Sources,” in the regional water supply plan. The county board of supervisors approved the regional supply plan at its June 20 meeting with the Virginia Beach study included.
A number of councilmen attended the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors’ meeting Tuesday night that featured Tom Leahy, Virginia Beach director of public works, speaking on how the water system downstream from the uranium mining operation would be affected in the event of a disaster resulting in a spill at the mining site.
Councilman Jack Dunavant, chairman of the Current Affairs Committee, said Leahy has agreed to come to Halifax County to speak to citizens on the impact of uranium mining. ……http://www.gazettevirginian.com/index.php/news/34-news/3486-halifax-council-to-step-up-opposition-to-uranium-mining
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